I get so grumpy at restaurants when we get a complete meal and it gets cold while our requests for silverware go unanswered! But in the big picture, what does it matter?
As T.S. Eliot so nicely phrased it, “I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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